alexa hackathon

a four hour venture

What you can expect

Invent and develop with other new ideas for Amazons
Alexa. Implement your ideas as rapid prototyp
within four hours.
you can join other teams with great ideas as well as pitch
your own ideas at the beginning of the hackathon.

Alexa Skills can be developed with any
(backend-) programming language. We will start the hackathon
with an introduction which will enable you to develop your
first skill.
Also non developers are invited to pitch their
Ideas and Concepts and get part of this
venture.

Everything is possible

Adopt your existing app or create something new.
For example, connect Alexa with a Smart Home device,
your own existing API, an API from one of our event partner
or you some open data.
Be creative!

With the pleasure of our sponsors we can provide
enought test devices and other hardware to play.

You need more inspiration?
Checkout the latest hackathons like
the iBeacon or Connected Car hackathon.

Schedule

We open the doors for you at "die wohngemeinschaft" at 2 pm
and start the hackathon at 3 pm with some great talks about the opportunities.
Get some inspiration before you start your 4 hour venture.

Tech talk: Alexa Skills Kit introduction

Kay Lerch works on different 3rd party Alexa Skills for well known companies in Germany.
He give regular talks within the community and is contributor of
the reference implementation and different Open Source Alexa SDKs.

He will give a short introduction into the
Alexa Skills Kit,
the API opportunities and restrictions.

Mentors

So that you can focus on the implementation of an idea,
we are happy to have some developers which will help you with troubleshooting.